Vocational guidance and counseling services available for students in Tennessee public high schools offering office occupations education in 1970-71 need strengthening, with improved job placement services. (MF)

A more ambitious counseling program, founded on social and economic realities, is seen as a possible answer to discontent, turnover, and nonproductive jobs. (Author)

Describes an exemplary project in career education in South Carolina. (GB)

Creating an open ended placement file for each student could have many advantages: long term followup, simplified alumni service, and closer counseling. (Author)

The purpose of this research was to determine the degree to which positive relationships between self-descriptions and/or interpersonal descriptions and ratings of competence generalized over different situations. Generality was found for the interpersonal descriptions but not for the self-descriptions. (Author)

Statistics show women made little professional progress either in work or training in the 1960's. The author sees ahead a strong possibility of non traditional careers. (Author)

Bold public investment in the expansion and improvement of education will enable the utilization of educated persons for the improvement of education. (Author)

Problems of training, retraining, and counseling older workers are examined in terms of some of their characteristics, such as slower work habits, decreased physical strength, adaptability, and lack of self confidence. Ways to compensate for possible handicaps through training and counseling are suggested. (Author)

Too many people, young and old, are prisoners and misfits in their careers. More adequate placement counseling, and greater understanding of the individual are needed to eliminate this waste in these changing times. (Author)

The counselor has a responsibility to determine, through initial interviewing, whether a need exists for therapeutic intervention with an anxious or depressed client. (Author/CJ)